Aka, the VE Day painting, early iteration.

Because this will primarily appear as a moving image, I wanted lots of bright colours, hints of flags, and some wartime photos which are mostly my own family. The white areas will shortly be flowers. My next step will be to mask the coloured areas with matte varnish, fill the white background areas with yellow/green evocative of Summer, and build up those flowers. Or, looking at some of them, butterflies. I’m looking for evocative but also joyful. And I need to find space for the VE Day lettering. And I think I have the flag upside down if we assume the flag pole is on the left, darn it!

8th March 2025

This has become rather too Where’s Wally and although it might improve with more attention, it also may not.

Luckily, its backup, sitting right next to it on the easel, has quietly stepped up to the plate.

Pastel crayon to the flag with a coat of varnish to keep it in place. The digital darks are a little darker than the real ones.

One of these paintings will be the base image for the animation and AR which will sit on the target image.

11th March. Yesterday I recruited the local pharmacy to the cause, albeit in just a faint hope that a signal might make its way into the village! I can send a link to YouTube where it’s available only to people who have that link. He chose the image that is mainly yellow and less busy than the other.

The second installation is on the Khushbu wall which is absolutely the best site I’ve ever found in the village for both signal and position. There are no 3D elements.

This installation is new so it’s unlikely anyone other than the pharmacist will access it before launch. The AR has additional 3D elements supplied by Artivive.

SCH 2025